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Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Schizophrenia

NCT01886417 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2015-03-10

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Summary

Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are speech perceptions in the absence of a relevant external stimulation. Some accounts of AVHs claim that a deficit in inner speech monitoring would cause the verbal thoughts of the patient to be perceived as external voices resulting in AVHs.

In order to examine whether AVHs correspond to self-generated inner speech, the present study aims at collecting speech muscle activity during covert AVHs (without articulation), overt speech and rest. Surface electromyography (sEMG) is used on schizophrenia patients and control subjects to detect any speech muscle activity during AVH.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • GIPSA-LAB

    collaborator OTHER

  • University Hospital, Grenoble

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Thierry BOUGEROL, MD, PHD, HDR · University Hospital of Grenoble, France

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-10-31
Primary Completion
2015-03-31
Completion
2015-03-31

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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